WCC Round 2     30 Nov/1 Dec (TB 2 Dec)       Anand, Viswanathan IND 2762 ½-½ 1-0 Bologan, Viktor MDA 2641            Rublevsky, Sergei RUS 2670 0-1 ½-½ Lputian, Smbat ARM 2598 Krasenkov, Michael POL 2702 ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ 1-0 0-1 ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ 0-1 Macieja, Bartlomiej POL 2536 Beliavsky, Alexander SLO 2659 ½-½ 1-0 Galkin, Alexander RUS 2587 Leko, Peter HUN 2743 ½-½ 1-0 Volkov, Sergey RUS 2554   Khalifman, Alexander RUS 2667 ½-½ ½-½ 1-0 ½-½ Lutz, Christopher GER 2595 Short, Nigel ENG 2677 ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ 0-1 Nataf, Igor FRA 2526 Leitao, Rafael BRA 2567 ½-½ 1-0 Benjamin, Joel USA 2577 Adams, Michael ENG 2755 ½-½ ½-½ 1-0 1-0 Dao, Thien Hai VIE 2555     Xu Jun CHN 2668 0-1 ½-½ Yermolinsky, Alex USA 2596 Svidler, Peter RUS 2689 ½-½ ½-½ 1-0 1-0 Bacrot, Etienne FRA 2613 Peng Xiaomin CHN 2657 1-0 0-1 1-0 ½-½ Adianto, Utut INA 2583 Topalov, Veselin BUL 2707 ½-½ 1-0 Kharlov, Andrei RUS 2627   Georgiev, Kiril BUL 2661 ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ 1-0 Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter ROM 2592 Dreev, Alexey RUS 2676 ½-½ ½-½ 0-1 1-0 1-0 1-0 Malakhov, Vladimir RUS 2605 van Wely, Loek NED 2643 1-0 1-0 Sasikiran, Krishnan IND 2573 Milos, Gilberto BRA 2633 0-1 0-1 Morozevich, Alexander RUS 2756       Vladimirov, Evgeny KAZ 2598 ½-½ ½-½ 1-0 ½-½ Almasi, Zoltan HUN 2668 Tregubov, Pavel RUS 2620 0-1 1-0 ½-½ 0-1 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam UZB 2690 Lesiege, Alexandre CAN 2584 0-1 ½-½ Tkachiev, Vladislav FRA 2657 Ehlvest, Jaan EST 2627 ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ 1-0 Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR 2719   Iordachescu, Viorel MDA 2594 0-1 1-0 ½-½ ½-½ 0-1 0-1 Movsesian, Sergei CZE 2666 Grischuk, Alexander RUS 2606 ½-½ ½-½ 1-0 1-0 Smirin, Ilia ISR 2677 Serper, Grigory USA 2574 1-0 1-0 Ivanov, Alexander USA 2567 Onischuk, Alex. UKR 2627 ½-½ ½-½ 0-1 ½-½ Shirov, Alexei ESP 2746     Minasian, Artashes ARM 2595 ½-½ ½-½ 0-1 ½-½ Gurevich, Michael BEL 2667 Dizdarevic, Emir BIH 2527 0-1 0-1 Gelfand, Boris ISR 2681 Nevednichy, Vlad. ROM 2582 0-1 0-1 Piket, Jeroen NED 2649 Vaganian, Rafael ARM 2623 0-1 1-0 ½-½ ½-½ 0-1 0-1 Bareev, Evgeny RUS 2702   Alexandrov, Alexej BLR 2591 ½-½ 1-0 Akopian, Vladimir ARM 2660 Baklan, Vladimir UKR 2599 0-1 ½-½ Azmaiparashvili, Zurab GEO 2673 Chernin, Alexander HUN 2572 ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ 0-1 Gulko, Boris USA 2643

Study the decisive moments from round 2.1
Study the decisive moments from round 2.2
Study the decisive moments from round 2 tie-breaks

Round 3 pairings.

GM Einar Gausel annotates:
Morozevich vs. Milos 2.1
Anand vs. Bologan 2.2

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